1974.154: Study for "Terpsichore and Euterpe"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1974.154

People

David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)

Title

Study for "Terpsichore and Euterpe"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1947

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/309075

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and purple fiber-tip ink on cream wove paper, darkened

Dimensions

actual: 51.2 x 67 cm (20 3/16 x 26 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black ink, u.r.: David / Smith 1947
• inscription: u.r., black ink, in artist's hand: For BC Fab.
• inscription: back of frame (now missing): David Smith / Working drawing for "Terpsichore & Euterpe" (coll: L.O.) / Coll: Lois Orswell / Pomfret, Conn. [see notation in curatorial file]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

David Smith, Bolton Landing, New York; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1974.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell

Copyright

© The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Accession Year

1974

Object Number

1974.154

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• The Sculpture of David Smith: A Handlist, checklist, Washington Gallery of Modern Art and Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA and Washington DC, 1966 - 1967), no. 160
• Jeanne L. Wasserman, Six Sculptors and Their Drawings, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1971), no. 36
• Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 238, p. 349, p. 353 as fig. 172
• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., Knoedler & Co. Inc. (New York, 2003), cat. no. 16, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

• Six Sculptors and Their Drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/07/1971 - 06/07/1971
• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 11/14/2003 - 01/24/2004

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